Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025

[Justbillywitt]

In the poll I said Manchester City would be champions but this time I want Arsenal to win. Every year a team goes forward but in the final City are champions. Let's see a different champion. Arsenal came ahead for me because I saw the other teams a little bit behind. Maybe Chelsea will be better this time with their new signings. I don't think United and Liverpool are too ambitious, I think Arsenal will do it, maybe Chelsea a little bit. Any other surprise is close to impossible. Stories like Leicester City happen once in a hundred years.

For me, Man City still remains my favorite. But If they get kicked out, then I'd say Arsenal to take the first place. I still stick to the scenario where Arsenal can finish at the second place, and it has minor gap toward City. This was caused by Arsenal is not really solving the problem in their forward. However, if Arsenal can sign an above-average striker, I think they can get one step closer to winning the league. The problem is Arteta sticks with the same forward as last season. This raises my doubts. It's hard to see how they can take first without a beast of a striker.

This is exactly what's getting me worried about Arsenal credential to win the premier league title this season. Although they scored lots of goals last season and possibly Arteta still believe that the team is going to produce same or more amounts of goals this season again. Arsenal should have gotten a good striker that can score 25 goals and above a season, it will boast their tittle bid. Gabriel Jesus is just an average striker and most times he goes on for weeks without scoring and that's not good for a team that want to beat Manchester City for the premier league. Manchester City that their striker has won the golden boot for two straight seasons and still looking forward to winning this season's own. Nobody is going to hand Arsenal the premier league for free, or out of pity. So the should better fix their forward line now that they have the chance.

Bro, you just said my mind here, I have equally said it before that arsenal can't win the league with this current attackers at their disposal, relying on someone like Gabriel Jesus and Kyle havertz, players that can't even produce the least fifteen goal per season in the English premier league, though their are those fans that would argue that the arsenal team generally scored a whole lot of goals last season with this current attackers, but my question is that, where did it lead them to?
Did they win anything? No.

Mikel arteta have failed to understand that if you look at the history of the premier league and those teams that have won it, they all have an attacker that can deliver the least 20 goals per season, so if arsenal don't fix that, and they let it lingers into this new season, I believe that they might suffer the same faith as last season which they won nothing with the kind of talent they have in the team.

Arteta has forgotten that he is dealing with the best tactician in the premier league, which is pep Guardiola. And when you are up against the best, you have to operate in his standard or even more than him. Guardiola when he came to the premier league he had Aguero and he was scoring for him good goals, as Aguero aged on and wasn't producing much goals anymore, he was sold and Gabriel Jesus was leading the front line, but a time came when Pep Guardiola realized that Gabriel Jesus was missed chances was more than his converting rate, he was sold and Haaland was brought in. Guardiola understands the demand of the premier league that without a world class striker it will be difficult to win the league. My question is why is Arsenal not going for Victor Osimhen? They are busy recruiting players in areas they are solid and neglecting where they are lacking the most.

[mammusu]

Yes, a striker is what most Arsenal fans thinks will hinder their chances of winning the league title this season. And If they don't get the position they need, it might just be the same story all over again full of hope.

With the number of goals they scored last season, one might think they can compete this season without an actual striker. I think they need an actual striker tbh but I highly doubt the manager will get one. There are capping their hopes at a midfielder and a winger and hoping fortune smiles at them.

Let's just see how it goes. If Manchester City decide that they are tired of winning, Arsenal may just win the league like that.

There are no positions in a team that are not important when a team wants to become a champion. You can have the best forwards, but if the defense does not work well in some matches, then all efforts will not lead to the desired result. In fact, if you are talking about statistics, then Arsenal were the best in this regard last season, but as we can see, this did not help them become champions. When you are going to compete with the best teams, then in order to become a champion you need to become better than them, better than City, and I do not know what should happen for Arsenal to be able to become better than City.

Each line in the squad certainly has its own role in strengthening a team so we cannot say that the attack line is more important than the defense line, but if we look at Arsenal performance and squad last season, it looked perfect in every line but actually their still had shortcomings in center forward sector, although overall their attack line is the second sharpest after Manchester City, what Arsenal fans and legends continue to criticized  about the lack of a center forward must of course be a reference for Arteta in seeing what their team needs to next season, right now the transfer market is still open and there are still lots of great strikers available that they can recruit and i think they must be able to make good use of it, especially now  reported that Nketiah is also heading for the exit from the Emirates, so Arsenal must move quickly to be able to cover the gap left by Nketiah departure later.

[SmartCharpa]

Bro, you just said my mind here, I have equally said it before that arsenal can't win the league with this current attackers at their disposal, relying on someone like Gabriel Jesus and Kyle havertz, players that can't even produce the least fifteen goal per season in the English premier league, though their are those fans that would argue that the arsenal team generally scored a whole lot of goals last season with this current attackers, but my question is that, where did it lead them to?
Did they win anything? No.

Mikel arteta have failed to understand that if you look at the history of the premier league and those teams that have won it, they all have an attacker that can deliver the least 20 goals per season, so if arsenal don't fix that, and they let it lingers into this new season, I believe that they might suffer the same faith as last season which they won nothing with the kind of talent they have in the team.

Arsenal scored a lot of goals last season, but they were unable to maintain it throughout the season. At the start of the season, Arsenal defeated several of their opponents by 5 to 6 goals, but as the season came to an end, Arsenal couldn't score as many as they did against some opponents. In my opinion, the striker isn't only the player Arsenal needs for next season, they need more defenders who can prevent their opponents from scoring goals, Arsenal defenders were weak toward the end of the season, I remember them being weak and failing to compete with Manchester City when the season ended. Arsenal scored a lot of goals last season, but they couldn't win a title. Arsenal led Manchester City by a goal differential, but as the season went on, Manchester City finished with the same number of goals as Arsenal.

However, if Arsenal wants to win the Premier League next season, they must sign a striker who can score as many goals as Haaland, they do not currently have a striker capable of scoring 20 goals in the Premier League. Last season, Jesus scored four goals in 27 appearances while Kai Havertz scored thirteen in 37 for Arsenal. I believe that if Arsenal can find a striker capable of scoring 20 goals per season, they will win the championship they were unable to win for many years.

[bering]

In the poll I said Manchester City would be champions but this time I want Arsenal to win. Every year a team goes forward but in the final City are champions. Let's see a different champion. Arsenal came ahead for me because I saw the other teams a little bit behind. Maybe Chelsea will be better this time with their new signings. I don't think United and Liverpool are too ambitious, I think Arsenal will do it, maybe Chelsea a little bit. Any other surprise is close to impossible. Stories like Leicester City happen once in a hundred years.

For me, Man City still remains my favorite. But If they get kicked out, then I'd say Arsenal to take the first place. I still stick to the scenario where Arsenal can finish at the second place, and it has minor gap toward City. This was caused by Arsenal is not really solving the problem in their forward. However, if Arsenal can sign an above-average striker, I think they can get one step closer to winning the league. The problem is Arteta sticks with the same forward as last season. This raises my doubts. It's hard to see how they can take first without a beast of a striker.

Under Guardiola Manchester City can conquer premier league for years so they always being an the favourite for each season besides that although Manchester City hasn't bought more players this summer but their current squad is very solid and new player too Savinho looks promising because his debut match at Manchester derby on Community Shield also run well even Guardiola has very satisfied with Savinho performance

You may to look at the odds who is the most favourite champion of season 2024/2025 and apparently the odds looks not so different compared to last season with Manchester City as the first favourite and Arsenal in the second place so here is the odds list below

[Gallar]

Arteta has forgotten that he is dealing with the best tactician in the premier league, which is pep Guardiola. And when you are up against the best, you have to operate in his standard or even more than him. Guardiola when he came to the premier league he had Aguero and he was scoring for him good goals, as Aguero aged on and wasn't producing much goals anymore, he was sold and Gabriel Jesus was leading the front line, but a time came when Pep Guardiola realized that Gabriel Jesus was missed chances was more than his converting rate, he was sold and Haaland was brought in. Guardiola understands the demand of the premier league that without a world class striker it will be difficult to win the league. My question is why is Arsenal not going for Victor Osimhen? They are busy recruiting players in areas they are solid and neglecting where they are lacking the most.

Yes, I agree with you that Arteta has to be really careful in every factor to be able to bring Arsenal ahead of Manchester City. Because as we know, Manchester City has a very great squad and coach. So to deal with this, Arteta cannot just rely on strategy or tactics to bring Arsenal ahead of Manchester City next season. However, Arsenal really needs to look for a sharper striker, because Arsenal's front line currently looks less consistent in terms of performance. However, until now it seems that Arsenal have not been seen buying any strikers, what I know is that currently Arsenal is buying more defenders. The reason is, Arsenal is now proven to have bought 3 defenders and 1 new goalkeeper in this transfer market.

So if you look at the transfer record, Arsenal doesn't seem to care too much about their front line. Maybe Arteta feels strong about the forward players that Arsenal currently has. I also can't say that Arsenal's current forward players are weak, but their only weakness is their lack of consistent performance. Because this season I have seen Arsenal's performance and the result is that Arsenal's front line players cannot maintain consistent performance well. So, if for example Arsenal brought in Osimhen in their front line, maybe Arsenal could be sharper next season. However, it seems that Arsenal's biggest obstacle is only from a financial perspective. Because currently Arsenal is very interested in bringing in Osimhen, but because Osimhen's price is quite expensive, this is an obstacle that makes it difficult for Arsenal to bring in Osimhen.

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You may to look at the odds who is the most favourite champion of season 2024/2025 and apparently the odds looks not so different compared to last season with Manchester City as the first favourite and Arsenal in the second place so here is the odds list below

The odds for Manchester City to still be the favorite are not strange anymore because they are able to win trophies in a row, however, the bookies will give small odds as the champion of this team because obviously their game has not changed the squad is still solid as long as Pep Guardiola is still the coach.

Chelsea is the 4th favorite of the bookies compared to other teams because they made such a big overhaul? Maresca being the new coach there may still be hope for change, but still not sure Chelsea will do it significantly.

[Chilwell]

The serious punishment Man City could face if found guilty of 115 breaches of Premier League rules

Manchester City will face an extremely serious punishment if they are found to have broken Premier League financial rules.

On Tuesday morning (August 13) several reports claimed that the hearing against Man City on 115 alleged breaches of Premier League financial rules will begin on September 16.

In February 2023 the Premier League charged City with 115 alleged breaches of its financial rules over a nine-year period between 2009 and 2018.

The alleged rule breaches include not providing accurate financial information for nine separate seasons, not providing full details of former manager Roberto Mancini’s pay over the four seasons he was at the club from 2009 to 2013, and not providing full details of players’ remuneration — including that of the former midfielder Yaya Toure — over six seasons from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Source link: https://www.sportbible.com/football/football-news/man-city/115-charges-premier-league-hearing-643436-20240813

[joniboini]

Chelsea is the 4th favorite of the bookies compared to other teams because they made such a big overhaul? Maresca being the new coach there may still be hope for change, but still not sure Chelsea will do it significantly.

Yeah, I also think it is a big surprise that Chelse is the fourth favorite considering their performance last season. I'd put Tottenham or Aston Villa at the fourth based on last season placements. Transfers do change things but they have a bumpy transfer records IMO. Not sure if their transfers will massively improve their performance even if they do well in pre-season. Even Liverpool do quite well but their odds are still lower compared to Arsenal, so who knows if the numbers will change significantly latter. CMIIW.